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The One Bermuda Alliance has outlined a raft of emergency measures aimed at turning the economy around, accusing Government of “running out of ideas and energy”.
Shadow Finance Minister ET (Bob) Richards said yesterday that immediate steps need to be...
DATE: Oct 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Bermudians are curbing their appetite for fried food, according to a survey of the Island’s health trends but four out of five adults are now watching more than two hours of television each day.
Since 2006, fast food consumption fell a total of five ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Teachers were congratulated, and the media castigated, at a ceremony honouring World Teacher’s Day.
Commending the Cambridge exam results announced this week for public schools students, Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) President Keisha Douglas told t...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A former office manager charged with a string of sex attacks on an employee agreed he “hand-selected” the much younger man for the job and took him under his wing.
Mr Y told Magistrates’ Court that throughout his life he had helped individuals who ne...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A row has broken out over what constitutes a pass for the IGCSE exams taken by Bermuda secondary school students.
Educators evaluating IGCSE results for Bermuda’s public schools have said the more rigorous C grade is the internationally accepted mea...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teacher locked in a legal battle with Government over alleged bullying by a special school principal is to appeal an arbitrator’s decision in the case.
Claudia DeSilva has filed grievances against Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy head Dena Butterfie...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda High School for Girls and Warwick Academy have announced their 2011 International Baccalaureate Diploma results.
Full diploma pass rates of 76 and 72 percent respectively, were recorded at the schools.
Meanwhile, Saltus Grammar School announ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Former United Bermuda Party deputy chairman David Sullivan is to run as an Independent candidate in the Devonshire South Central by-election because he says the party system is “broken and in dire need of repair”.
Mr Sullivan has declared his candida...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Students in public secondary schools received a grade of C or above in slightly more than half of the Cambridge IGCSE exams they took this year, Government revealed yesterday.
This is the first year a substantial number of public school students hav...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Acting Health Minister Michael Weeks yesterday encouraged women to take steps to protect themselves against breast cancer.
His comments were made at the launch of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, at City Hall.
Mr Weeks said breast cancer was the most c...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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